Templat:Plainlist/doc

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Shortcut

{{PL}}

This template uses TemplateStyles:

Template:Plainlist/styles.css

This template provides a WCAG/ISO-standards-compliant accessible alternative to <br /> separated lists, per WP:UBLIST and WP:PLIST

Usage

{{plainlist}} starts a plain (i.e. unbulleted) list, such as:

It uses proper HTML list markup, which is more standards-compliant and more accessible than separating list items with <br />. Detailed reasons for using this template can be found at WP:UBLIST.

This template can be used with or without {{endplainlist}}. It is an alternative to {{unbulleted list}}, which performs the same function in a more concise but less wiki-style manner. Note that {{unbulleted list}} will work inside image captions, whereas {{plainlist}} does not.

Examples

Templat:Markup

Alternative syntax

Templat:Markup

Parameters

Templat:Format TemplateData

Controlling line-breaking

Template {{nbsp}} may be used with {{wbr}} and {{nowrap}} to control line-breaking in bulletless lists, to prevent wrapped long entries from being confused with multiple entries. See Templat:Slink for details.

Technical details

{{Plainlist}} works by constructing a div with the CSS class "plainlist" which has the styles listed in Templat:Plainlist/styles.css.

Wikitext	Expanded template	HTML
{{Plainlist\| * Example 1 * Example 2 * Example 3 }}	Templat:Nowiki2	<div class="plainlist"> <ul> <li>Example 1</li> <li>Example 2</li> <li>Example 3</li> </ul> </div>